It is too terrible to think about the literary and intellectual loss for all of us that DFW could not overcome his awful struggle. This is not hypocrisy but a writer struggling with himself, his art, his life. Like Salinger, a favorite author of Wallace's, Wallace was not ultimately able to live the advice he put forward in his writing. For one thing, Wallace wrestled terribly with the themes he put forth to that Kenyon audience. One would need to go an awfully long way to overthink Wallace, and using the Kenyon address as a lens through which to interpret Wallace's fiction is a mistake, I think. Very familiar with the brilliant Kenyon address. Read many of Wallace's essays and am half way through JEST. 90).Īnother anonymous disagreement with cflanagan except to say that I agree with him/her that it was an enjoyable book and well-written.
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